I understand, this is still interesting to read. Thank you Kevin P.
> Il giorno 9 lug 2021, alle ore 20:20, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> ha > scritto: > > > Kevin, > I don't know how to do that anymore, if I ever did. I've used Jack for > years. In general it works for me but it is a bit finicky. > > As I say, software plugins in a real-time data path aren't something I > ever do anymore. If I really think I need a compressor when recording it's > going to be hardware which has its limitations as per that specific hardware > device. However careful recording with good levels shouldn't ever be a noise > floor issue so I just record softer and boost as necessary. I use Mixbus, the > for-pay version of Ardour. I have general workflow templates that make > getting set up easy, and frankly I'm recording so seldomly anymore that I'm > not even current with much of Linux audio anymore. The alsa-users list used > to be a very lively list. Today it's terribly quiet. Probably everyone who > could help you is either off in a forum somewhere or winding down like me in > retirement. > > Not sure any of this helps but as I say this list is so quiet I wasn't > sure you'd get any answers. > > Good luck, > Mark > >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:03 AM Kevin P <petrilli.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thank you for your kind reply, Mark. >> The suggestions you gave me are surely helpful, and I will study in >> deep some of the things you mentioned. >> I agree with you that applying a compressor as part of post-production >> would be the most efficient way of having the audio recorded the way I >> want. >> I am looking at jack too, i'll eventually install pipewire-jack as I >> am already running on pipewire, I'll look up for jack-compatible >> plugins. >> I'd still like to try implementing this with plain ALSA though, just >> to learn and experiment with it. >> Let me know if you know how to do it this way too! >> >> Il giorno ven 9 lug 2021 alle ore 00:17 Mark Knecht >> <markkne...@gmail.com> ha scritto: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 6:27 AM Kevin P <petrilli.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > Hello everyone, >> > > I own a Scarlett Solo 3rd gen USB audio board, and I would like to use >> > > a compressor >> > > plugin from the package "alsa-plugins", Arch Linux. The goal is to >> > > apply this effect >> > > to my voice when I'm recording, always. >> > <SNIP> >> > > >> > > I'm not quite sure this is correct, though. The compressor plugin I'd >> > > like to use is >> > > named "dysonCompress", it should be shipped with alsa-plugins package. >> > > I could not >> > > find documentation I could understand about this. >> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated :) >> > > >> > >> > In time critical applications like recording vocals you may find the >> > latency through software plugins to simply be unacceptable as it can >> > really throw off your sense of timing. Most important when recording is to >> > not have the technology get in the way of the performance. >> > >> > Should you really want to try it live then I would go with Jack and simply >> > route the scarlett's output, once inside the machine, through whatever >> > compressor you want to try and push the Alsa buffer size down as far as >> > you can without creating xruns. >> > >> > In my experience though, especially when beginning, I think you're better >> > off recording the vocal raw and then applying the compressor after the >> > fact in DAW. >> > >> > A lot of this depends on your monitoring chain. I Generally find that an >> > uncompressed vocal sent through a cheap hardware reverb in the monitor >> > chain is a great way to approach the problem of getting a good dry vocal >> > on disk. Once the vocal is on disk you can compress it anyway you want. At >> > that point it's just numbers. >> > >> > HTH, >> > Mark >> >
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